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Posted on 09/12/2004 3:07:13 AM PDT by The Bandit
Televangelist Paul Crouch, founder of the world's largest Christian broadcasting network, has waged a fierce legal battle to prevent a former employee from publicizing allegations that he and Crouch had a sexual encounter eight years ago.
Crouch, 70, is the president of Trinity Broadcasting Network, based in Orange County, whose Christian programming reaches millions of viewers around the world via satellite, cable and broadcast stations.
The source of the allegations against him is Enoch Lonnie Ford, who met Crouch at a TBN-affiliated drug treatment center in 1991 and later went to work for the ministry.
After Ford threatened to sue TBN in 1998, claiming that he had been unjustly fired, Crouch reached a $425,000 settlement with him. In return, Ford agreed, among other things, not to discuss his claim about a sexual encounter with the TV preacher.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
So, you know these people personally?
:-)
Trinity Broadcasting is number one when it comes to bringing the greatest Ministers and Bible teachers into the living rooms of Americans and the rest of the world.
Who are you to judge the Crouch's just because you don't like the way they look or one of them DARE to commit a sin?
The Jr Pharisees on in this thread need to pray God will have more mercy on them, than they've had on the Paul and Jan.
ROTFL! Your tagline is priceless!
Did I somehow force you against your will to read it? I think when the potential is there for TBN donor funds to be used to pay hush money it is a legit story to post.
Wow, what a picture. Is it like a Televangelist law or something that their women have to use a trowel and a leaf blower to apply mascara and eye shadow?
Paul & Jan were Jim & Tammy's youth pastors. The fruit doesn't fall far from the tree.
God, we proclaim death to anything or anyone that will lift a hand against this network and this ministry that belongs to You, God. It is Your work, it is Your idea, it is Your property, it is Your airwaves, it is Your world, and we proclaim death to anything that would stand in the way of God's great voice of proclamation to the whole world. In the Name of Jesus, and all the people said Amen!
Paul Crouch, Praise The Lord television program, November 7, 1997
"To hell with you! Get out of my life! Get out of the way! I say get out of God's way! Quit blocking God's bridges or God's going to shoot you if I don't. I don't even want to even talk to you or hear you! I don't want to see your ugly face!"
Paul Crouch, Praise-a-Thon, April 2, 1991
TBN Televangelists Buy $5,000,000 Home
LOS ANGELES TIMES, Nov.4, 2001, page K15
Televangelists JAN and PAUL CROUCH of the Costa Mesa-based Trinity Broadcasting Network have purchased a Newport Beach house for close to $5 million, Orange County Realtors say.
The home was described as "a palatial estate with ocean and city views." The Crouches had been living in a smaller house in the same neighborhood.
The house they bought has six bedrooms, nine bathrooms, a billiard room, a climate-controlled wine cellar, a sweeping staircase and a crystal chandelier.
The three-story, nearly 9,500-square-foot house, which has an elevator, also has a six-car garage, a tennis court and a pool with a fountain.
The house is on slightly more than an acre. Jan Crouch had been wanting a bigger yard for her dogs, sources said.
Trinity Broadcasting, established in 1973, has more than 768 TV stations on the air worldwide. The Crouches oversee a $100-million-plus-a-year enterprise. Even so, faithful viewers are said to consider the couple, who are in their 60s and have been married since the 50's, as everyday folk.
$40 million Suit Filed Over Omega Code
Dying minister claims Trinity Broadcasting Network stole her story.
God Only Knows What to Make of This Copyright Lawsuit
Los Angeles Times/December 17, 2001
Steve Lopez
Televangelists settle $40 million plagiarism suit
Sum undisclosed in case brought by author who claimed TBN movie 'The Omega Code' was based on her book.
The Orange County Register/January 1, 2002
By Teri Sforza
http://www.ondoctrine.com/10tbn.htm
Big surprise there. Having watched these two for laughs it always struck me that sitting amidst all that luxury and wearing all those expensive clothes while preaching the word, God had a plan. I think this is it. It's the Jim Baker syndrome.
I have noticed that churches/organization/individuals who advocate false doctrines almost always end up having problems in the areas of drinking, money, or sex, or any combination of them. I don't know why that is. I suspect there is a verse or two that indicates that. But everytime I have been suspect about an individual or organization, sooner or later, there has almost always been some rotten fruit in one or more of those areas. With such a vast resource of false doctrine and false teachers, and knowing that TBN already has many occasions of rotten fruit in the money area, we shouldn't be suprised to see some rotten fruit coming to light in the sex area - even if this particular instance turns out to be false.
Catholic Ping - let me know if you want on/off this list
Maybe you're not and yes you should.
What I don't understand is WHO watches this crap?? Been a Christian now for almost 30 years and have never watched any of these losers (Jim and Tammy and on and on, ad nauseum). I like a lot of preachers but they are mostly ones you hear on the radio - local and national people. Just the hair and make-up alone would scare me off from some of these people!
Passing judgment on other, I see. Let's here more of your great nobleness.
Some one on FR posted a pic of their set about two years ago with the caption "What Happens When Heterosexuals Decorate"
If I remember correctly from the Bakker scandal, most watchers are older women and people who consider themselves Christians but don't attend church. These teleevangelists are very good at selling salvation via money. They give people a chance to feel like they are active in "ministry" because they send money.
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